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He’s got an encouraging campaign slogan, given our ever more bitter partisan bickering: “Live and Let Live.” His family name, alas, is less upbeat. Carl R. Loser is the Libertarian Party candidate for the state Senate’s 10th district, which meanders its way from Richmond’s western neighborhoods to the rural reaches of Powhatan County. That’s the seat now held by state Sen. John Watkins, R-Powhatan, who is retiring this year. It is also probably the No. 1 target for Democrats who hope to regain control of the state Senate in November. So win or, ahem, not, Loser could play an important role in the political direction Virginia takes this year. His...

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He’s got an encouraging campaign slogan, given our ever more bitter partisan bickering: “Live and Let Live.”
His family name, alas, is less upbeat.
Carl R. Loser is the Libertarian Party candidate for the state Senate’s 10th district, which meanders its...

Virginia voters head to the polls in two weeks and, in the coming days, the Daily Press Editorial Board will offer its endorsements in the races citizens will see on the ballot this year.
Those include three contested races for U.S. House, one for U.S....

Virginia may be the land that elections never forgot -- our odd-year elections for state officials mean we're ALWAYS voting -- but now Del. Scott Lingamfelter, R-Prince William, is proposing another.
He's sponsoring a bill that would have Virginia...

Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Robert Sarvis polls well with young people, but U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is still the most popular man in the race, according to poll results released this morning by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher...

Sen. Mark Warner and GOP challenger Ed Gillespie took sequential potshots at one another Thursday at what's almost certain to be their last joint appearance before voters.What neither remarked on was that they offer very similar stands on sequestration,...

One vote can define a career in the U.S. Senate. Consider Edmund Ross of Kansas, one of the senators in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage," who cast the deciding vote in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson — and lost his seat as a...

4th Congressional District
Republican Rep. Randy Forbes faces Democrat Elliott Fausz and Libertarian Bo Brown for the seat in the 4th District.
Mr. Brown, a resident of Chesterfield County, is making his first bid for this elected office. Espousing an...

One theme picked up in many of the polls on the Sen. Mark Warner-Ed Gillespie race is how certain most voters say they are about their choice -- so the Roanoke College Poll's look at the 19 percent of likely Virginia voters who told it they haven't...

When pollsters results vary it’s worth a glance at who they’re polling.
So let’s look at three recent polls about the U.S. Senate race: Today’s from Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center, the latest from Roanoke College’s...

Sen Mark Warner holds a large but narrowing lead over Republican challenger Ed Gillespie as the race for the U.S. Senate heads to its final days, according to the latest statewide survey of likely voters by the Wason Center for Public Policy at...

The race for the Senate pits a governor-turned-senator who prides himself on his willingness to work across party lines against a former head of the Republican National Committee who says it's time to break Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's grip.Sen....

U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, faces two challengers in the 4th District in Tuesday's election.
Forbes, a Republican, won a special election in 2001 and has held the seat since – handily beating all challengers by double-digit percentages.
Forbes...

Tuesday is your day — Election Day — to give 'em a piece of your mind.
Virginians will choose the man who will serve as one of our two U.S. senators for the next six years, as well as who will speak for us in the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Sen....

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, will remain in Washington for another two years. Challenges from two young candidates from the western portion of the 4th Congressional District were not enough to unseat the Republican.
The complete unofficial results:...

That wave that Ed Gillespie spoke off after filling up on waffles at Angelo's on J. Clyde for his last day of campaigning was a real thing -- or so this tidbit from Christopher Newport University's Quentin Kidd suggests.
Kidd and his student pollsters...

ARLINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark Warner was re-elected by a razor-thin margin of less than one percentage point Tuesday in a race that polls had predicted him winning handily.
At 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, the unofficial results from the State Board of Elections,...

WILLIAMSBURG — U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Wednesday that he hasn't consulted an attorney and hasn't heard from federal investigators in the wake of his "brainstorming" call in June to the son of resigning state Sen. Phil Puckett.
The call was...

Yellow Cab will give senior citizens free rides to the polls Nov. 4 in Hampton and Newport News, the company said this week.
The offer is open to any registered voter over 60 who doesn't have their own transportation to the polls, the company said.
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Help feral cats surviveThe feral cat's life is full of hardships. Its life expectancy is only two years. It often deals with starvation, disease, predators and traffic, which take a heavy toll.Cats become feral due to human neglect. Reducing the...